Bob_Church

And what are the odds of a dozen children spending weeks, even months, on a rock in a damp cave without developing medical emergencies?

It's got to be getting really rough in there. Thirteen people in a bubble of air for eleven days now and no end in sight. And each option they come up with, like diving, sounds ok at first then someone just has to point out little details, like they'd probably die in the process.

I used to jump at Jackson County Airport near Ravenswood Wv. We were right next to the Kaiser Aluminum plant and that wasn't a coincidence. Kaiser built the airport and pretty much the entire area. Then it closed down because it couldn't compete with cheap imports. It's impossible to describe the misery this has caused. No jobs at the plant, no jobs providing services to those employees. Another region of West Virginia became a scene of misery and no hope. We need aluminum? Then open the plant again. And yes, I know, it'll make that bike cost a little more, but is it really worth making things a little cheaper, and making the 1% that much richer, while destroying our own communities?

Is it true that some long haul planes have a secret compartment for flight crew to sleep, maybe even get some hanky-panky in? Not if they tell you.

Awesome! Are they registered? They don't need to be in my state but I'd have no problem with registering them. Why? I believe we're at a point in time where anything that gets collected into a computer database has a high probability of getting stolen. Too many computer people are filling in gaps in their competence with arrogance. If you register something there is no legitimate reason to believe that that information will not become public. And then when someone needs a gun they'll know which house to rob.

They sell little spacers that really help and who knows what else by now, I did this once in the early 70s. Here's something that will sound stupid and if it is, fine, but a warning. Grout feels and looks like plaster and after mixing and dealing with it a lot it can be easy to get a little sloppy. Don't. It feels like something that you can wipe up later but it's actually chisel time if it dries somewhere you don't want it.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-03/thailand-cave-what-happens-now/9934088 The good news is that they've found the kids and asst coach alive. The bad news, how to get them out? I can't even begin to imagine how much trouble the coach is in.

So, WTF is $130,000? It's not a Fibonacci number or the latest extension of PI and it sure as hell didn't come from Trumps Feng Shui Master. What it is, is too little. The Prez simply underpaid for the service. I figure it's what he happened to have on him at the time.

What has this country come to when you can't even depend on a a paid off porn star to stay quiet?

I wonder how the stork came out in that encounter.

Another version. One to change it. The second one to say, "I could've done that!" And a third one to say "you're gonna get someone killed changing it that way."

You and Mike both. He's coming up on year 20 and his fourth parole hearing this coming January. What was he in for, again? In 1971 he hijacked a plane in the Pacific Northwest and bailed out with about $125k. They didn't catch him until 1999. Ok, he's doing time for felonious stupidity with a female minor. Some of you may know him, though it's been awhile. He was part of the greatest skydiving mystery ever, one that makes DB Cooper seem trivial. How did Mig Fernandez, one of the most together guys ever and an incredible skydiver, become partners with Mike Province, a man who's closest shot at skydiving immortality is in the form of a letter attached to the AFF program simply titled "This must never happen again!" Every time Mig would get the place, West Virginia Skydivers at Jackson County Wv airport, going Mike would bring it crashing down. I always assumed it must be something like on Gilligan's Island where the backstory is that Gilligan saved the Skipper''s life in the war. It's the only thing that makes any sense. And yes, the idea of visiting someone who's done something so inexcusable feels conflicting, but as Hoyt Axton said "and he'll always be another one of us" https://apps.wv.gov/OIS/OffenderSearch/DOC/Offender/Details?Id=BFgcfPo7UpgydcGQg2rCm%2Fi1bi9Fw9nnSgUPHNwgrPqZPD7XB63WvNB7RyrnHpvignS8tVi3fZFUGGdEYNlyPk0019uFlcWJCaWnmmdxyKqMZtHhbdnL4t8qTLwksrh0273cX4bth5jX7dNT5F37WEWsU%2FkTNtW2B2nu4lZXCVU%3D

For a soccer match? Why don't they just say "CLOSED"?

Assault rifle = fully automatic Assault weapon = military form factor, e.g., AR-15. Assault Rifle = a fully automatic or selective fire rate firearm (semi to fully), e.g., M-16, MP-5, UZI. Sport Rifle = single shot (semi), e.g., AR-15, Winchester lever actions, bolt-action .308, 30-06, etc. Assault Weapon = Term created for the 1994 "Assault Weapons Ban," which banned firearms based on appearance, brand name, and features to describe civilian semiautomatic firearms with a military or fearsome appearance, yet no more lethality than lesser weapons. The term has no industry or military definition. It was created to give a single name to all of the firearms politicians wanted to ban in 1994. Opponents of the 1994 ban refer to it more accurately as the "Semi-Auto" ban. The Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB), officially the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, is a subsection of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a United States federal law, which included a prohibition on the manufacture for civilian use of certain semi-automatic firearms that were defined as assault weapons. wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban And in one of the worst coincidences ever the Armalite Rifle-15 is referred to as the AR-15. I've met very few people who aren't convinced that the AR stands for Assault Rifle.

You and Mike both. He's coming up on year 20 and his fourth parole hearing this coming January.

I was seriously frightened on the ride to altitude for dozens of jumps but never once I exited. I'll get a mild version of that occasionally on some demos. My theory is that it's my brain trying to talk me out of it, but once I've left the plane it figures there's no point arguing now and goes into full time helping me with the jump.

Based on this and a few other threads I'm waiting for a knock on the door. A couple of people will try to hand me some tracts and ask me if I've accepted into my heart that the Bible isn't true and that God doesn't exist.

I remember being tested for it when I first got my drivers license in Ohio in the early 70s. Now I have to wonder if it had anything to do with driving. If you were studying color blindness it would be a good way to find out how much is out there. They could do stuff like that back then without someone stopping it with a lawsuit.

September 30 1979. I had 45 jumps and the rule at Bidwell was 100 jumps before jumping a square but Andy let me and Danny Joe helped. Jump 46 went ok, I slid a little but not bad. Then on my next jump the requirement went. Back to 100. That didn't actually hold then the 100 jump rule, but it was awhile before I had a shot at it. At about thirty feet I felt the canopy stall and just let go of the wooden toggles. I have no idea why. I watched the ground come up but came to looking at the sky. Spurgeon was on the pay phone calling 911 when he saw me stand up. I think those may have been my only Strato Star jumps.

Bubble gum so your ears don't pop?

Spud and Molly go shopping. If they don't get away, they can't get high.

Got it. I got depressed thinking about how long ago it was that James Brady got shot. Not that I was some sort of fan of his, but if it happened nearly forty years ago, and I remember it, then I'm forty years older. That's a scary phrase.

I agree. I wasn't questioning what Bigun said.

There you go again. Gun control is not banning. 'Gun Control' is an empty term that everyone attaches their own meeting to. We've had 'Gun Control' for forty years, or we need 'Gun Control' now. Until someone says something like "we need to take this action to control gun violence" it's just like saying "we need weather."

It used to be the kiss of death if you wanted to work at Bell Telephone. I remember when they came out with some combination of lenses that allowed color blind people to work there. There are two sets of five colors that identify all cable pairs. White Red Black Yellow Violet and Blue Orange Green Brown Slate. You just never forget those.